Counter-point: there was a second person who said "yes,enforcing this rule is worth my time and everyone else's.

People need to chill. While the cell phone rule is all kinds of stupid, the flight crew doesn't get to make the call on it. They are told "This is a rule you have to enforce," they really don't have a choice. Over all, you want it that way. The flight crew are not some extremely well educated experts on aircraft. You don't want them deciding what flight safety rules are and are not worth following. You don't want a "Just leave the handle alone Cletus, it isn't like it'll matter if the door comes open, I have no doors on my truck and it is fine!" situation. It is up to the FAA to change the rule (which they should, like 10 years ago) and until then it is reasonable for the flight crew to do as they are told and enforce it.

I feel no sympathy for people who think they are too good for the rules like this lady did. You get told to turn off your phone, like everyone else? Just do it. You are not that important. If you don't, ya they are going to kick you off. If you get belligerent, then yes you are getting arrested.

Also better to deal with an aggressive person on the ground then have to put up with it in flight.

Counter-point: there was a second person who said "yes,enforcing this rule is worth my time and everyone else's.

People need to chill. While the cell phone rule is all kinds of stupid, the flight crew doesn't get to make the call on it. They are told "This is a rule you have to enforce," they really don't have a choice. Over all, you want it that way. The flight crew are not some extremely well educated experts on aircraft. You don't want them deciding what flight safety rules are and are not worth following. You don't want a "Just leave the handle alone Cletus, it isn't like it'll matter if the door comes open, I have no doors on my truck and it is fine!" situation. It is up to the FAA to change the rule (which they should, like 10 years ago) and until then it is reasonable for the flight crew to do as they are told and enforce it.

I feel no sympathy for people who think they are too good for the rules like this lady did. You get told to turn off your phone, like everyone else? Just do it. You are not that important. If you don't, ya they are going to kick you off. If you get belligerent, then yes you are getting arrested.

Also better to deal with an aggressive person on the ground then have to put up with it in flight.

Self-aggrandizing or self sabotage? Geezus, they gave her three full minutes (at least) to voluntarily get off the plane and avoid going to jail. If she had done that, at least she had a chance at the airline rerouting her to pacify the situation. Instead she grew increasingly belligerent, and in front of her young son, too. Poor guy.

Self entitled loud mouth gutter trash thought that she could do whatever she wants and if they said anything, just throw a fit, and they would leave her alone. Think again. I wonder if she's this "ladies" sister.

Well with that funky last name I am guessing she is some entitled person from St. Kitts or Haiti who just had to go full on ghetto to maintain her street cred on her block. "you saw, it took three of them mofos to get me of da plane, this girl does not play".

Oddly enough people from Islands are the most cantankerous farkos in the world.

There's some justice in knowing that any time in the next 50 years, when ever Lindsay Capri Bien-aim is Googled by a potential employer, friend, boyfriend, or neighbor this is what will come up. No matter what kind of person she was up until now, in four short minutes she just defined her life. Good luck, lady.

Waldo Pepper:I sort of hope they keep the no cell phone rule. Can you imagine having that lady sitting next to you talking on her cell phone the entire flight.

I have heavy duty earbuds with custom inserts to block out all the goings on of the plane (like screaming babies). I highly suggest it :). Good earbuds with inserts made for your ears can give you near 40dB noise reduction. You then play some music over that, and you don't hear the background noise. Not the cheapest thing to get done, but worth it if you fly much.

In terms of phones the idea isn't to allow phone calls. That would actually still be disallowed by the FCC because transmitters that high up, moving that fast, will give fits to the cell network. Just that you don't have to turn off phones, Kindles, that sort of thing for take off. You can keep playing a game or reading or whatever. That's the part that is silly. There's no problem having electronics on (they've studied it quite extensively), they don't interfere with the systems at all. The rule is antiquated and needs to go away. But that doesn't mean phone calls would be allowed, that's a whole different set of issues.

Pangit:eas81: Babwa Wawa: So her expulsion from the plane for refusal to turn off her cell phone was recorded on... someone else's cell phone?

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Doesn't mean you have to turn the thing off...Hey who knows, maybe she had a good game of words with friends going on.

Actually every flight I have ever been on says ALL electronics have to be completely powered off. Then when you hear the 2-3 chimes after take-off, its "safe" to use in flight mode.

/I leave mine in flight mode also.

I always thought they tell you to turn everything off to try and force you to pay attention to the safety announcement, and to have a better chance at successfully communicating instructions to passengers if the plane is in trouble.

biatch is stupid for not complying. I'll never understand people like this who think it's going to go down some other way where they get what they want. That being said, if it was really important for everyone to turn their phones off, they wouldn't leave it up to everyone to comply willingly. Out of sight, out of mind appears to be the acceptable standard.